For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developer…
China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned agai…
The software industry runs on a shared list of known bugs. Someone is now seeding that list with breakage that no one ever found. Security firm JFrog found six critical SQLite flaws that were pure fiction, it reported. The advisories claimed severe mem…
Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple’s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powe…
Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once…
A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The tim…
Visa is acquiring Tel Aviv-based fraud detection startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash from private equity firm Permira and other investors. BioCatch’s platform analyses keystroke timing, touchscreen pressure, swipe patterns, and device handling to…
The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. T…
Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The governmen…
The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 mil…